John Bernard (bishop)

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John Henry Bernard, DD

The Right Reverend John Henry Bernard, PC, DD (27 July 1860 – 29 August 1927), was an Irish Anglican clergyman.

Biography

Bernard was born in Raniganj, India. He was elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, in 1884, and was a member of the council of the university, where he held the office of King´s Lecturer of Divinity from 1888 to 1902.

He was appointed treasurer of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, by the Dean Henry Jellett in 1897. On Jellett´s death, in December 1901, Bernard became a favorite to succeed him as Dean, a position to which he was elected by the chapter of the cathedral 6 February 1902. He served as such until 1911, when he was appointed Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin. In 1915 he was appointed Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, serving until 1919.

A prolific scholar, in many fields, including Church history, theology and philosophy, he was the president of the Royal Irish Academy from 1916 to 1921 and Provost of Trinity College, Dublin from 1919 to 1927. He was a member of the Board of National Education in Ireland He was regarded as an unrepentant Unionist, representing their interests as a delegate to the 1917–18 Irish Convention.

Bernard married his cousin Maude Nannie Bernard in 1885; they had two sons and two daughters (Parker (2005): 73). In April 1915 his son, Lieutenant Robert Bernard of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers was killed in action during the Gallipoli Campaign. He is commemorated at V Beach Cemetery by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

External links

• http://anglicanhistory.org/ireland/lindsay5.html Some Archbishops of Dublin (T. S. Lindsay – Dublin, 1928)
• The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge Vol. II (original publication 1908 – circa 1914) "Bernard, John Henry"
• Grace & Favour: A handbook of who lived where in Hampton Court Palace 1750 to 1950

Church of Ireland titles
Preceded by Henry Jellett	Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1902–1911	Succeeded by Charles Thomas Ovenden
Preceded by Charles Frederick D'Arcy	Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin 1911–1915	Succeeded by John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg
Preceded by Joseph Ferguson Peacocke	Archbishop of Dublin 1915–1919	Succeeded by Charles Frederick D'Arcy
Academic offices
Preceded by John Pentland Mahaffy	Provost of Trinity College, Dublin 1919–1927	Succeeded by Edward John Gwynn